Soundroom Podcast

When you meet an artist who says she enjoys 'heating up the dancefloor' at Watergate and other clubs she plays at, you know you're onto something really special here. Assal (her name means honey in Persian) is somebody who simply gives the impression that she's for real whilst communicating naturally via her music. Perhaps the heat that she speaks of is a literal translation of the well known and well loved (yet often overlooked these days) art of warming up in a club. It's usually an opening dj's job to gradually increase the energy and intensity in a room and it's this position of trust that she often finds herself in at the moment. Or, possibly, it's something way deeper and more acutely intuitive that's at the heart of her expression of warmth. Either way it describes her music perfectly. Recently she's played alongside Priku, Thomas Melchior, East End Dubs and Arapu to mention just few of the bigger house and techno names who have enjoyed working with her, receiving these well programmed and soulfu